Support for swinging furniture.



W. H. VIRGIE. v SUPPORT FOR SWINGING FURNITURE.

APPLIGATION FILED 0013.19, 1907. I

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

1% hmaaeo the form of WILLIAM H. VIRGIE, OF OLARKSBURG. WEST VIRGINIA.

SUPPORT FOR SWIN GIN G FURNITURE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed. October 19, 1907.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908. Serial No. 398,252.

To aZZ wh0m ct may concern: I sides of the settee and secured within them Be it known that I, IVILLIAM H. Vinnie, a f are eye bolts 8. Eyes 9 are fastened to the citlzen of the United States, residing at outer faces of the arms 2. Clarksburg, in the county of Harrison and I For the purpose of holding the settee or State of IV est Virginia, have invented a crib suspended so that the same can be new and useful Support for Swinging Fureither oscillated or swung in a circle, novel nlture, of which the following is a specificameans are provided. These means consist tlOIl- I of a yoke 10 having a securing bolt 11 swiv- This invention relates to supports for artieled in the upper portion thereof. This cles of furniture of that type designed to I yoke is secured around the middle portionof swlng, such, for example as cribs, chairs a supporting bar 12 preferably formed of and the like. wood of a springy nature. Secured upon One of the objects of the invention is to the bar adjacent its ends are trucks consistprovide novel means whereby the body of ing of brackets 13 arranged in pairs and the article of furniture can be swung in a carrying anti-friction rollers 14. The trucks c rcle while in use as a swing, this being parare positioned with their center portions ticularly desirable where the device is loupon the bar 12 and with the rollers thereof cated indoors and it is desired to use it for located beyond opposite sides of the bar. any of the purposes stated and in any de- Secured to the lower face of the bar adja- SIFGCl position. cent these rollers are eye bolts 15 and each With these and other objects in view the eye bolt has supporting chains 16 or other invention consists of certain novel features flexible devices fastened to it. These chains of construction and combinations of parts are designed to be extended through the eyes which will be hereinafter more fully de- 9 and have hooks 17 at their lower ends scribed and pointed out in the claim. which may be placed in engagement with the In the accompanying drawings is shown eye bolts 8 and thus hold the body 1 out of the preferred form of the invention. contact with the floor or ground thereunder.

In said drawings: Figure 1 is a perspec- In using this device the bolt 11 is designed tive view of the complete device. Fig. 2 is to be secured to the ceiling of a room or to a section through the front portion thereof any other suitable structure and the rollers and looking toward one end. Fig. 3 is a 14 will normally rest close to or in contact section through the swiveled connect-ion of the supporting bar.

Referring to the reference. 1

with said supporting structure. As the rollers 14 are supported beyond opposite faces of bar 12 they will prevent the bar from tilt ing transversely while the seat is being swung backward and forward and therefore it becomes impossible for said bar to bind upon the swivel bolt 11. When it is desired to suspend the body 1 chains 16 are placed in engagement therewith in the manner stated whereupon the body can be used as a swing and can be readily turned to any desired position because the bar 12 is swiveled grooves and to be slid downward therein upon the bolt 11 as clearly indicated in Fig. until it rests upon the front portion of the 3. As the bar 12 is formed of resilient mate seat. IVhen the panel is in this position the rial it will be apparent that a certain springsettee may be used as a crib the back, arms, ing action will be produced when a weight and panel constituting eificient means for is placed upon the body. preventing the occupant from falling there- What is claimed is: from. When the device is to be used as a In a device of the class settee the panel 5 can be raised out of posiport comprising a resilient tion'within the grooves and stored in any bracing and secured to the middle portion convenient place. The front and rear bars of the bar, a. securing bolt swiveled in that 6 and 7 of the seat frame extend beyond the portion of the yoke extending across the figures by characters of designates av body preferably in a settee of any desired size and proportions, the arms 2 of which are supported at their front ends upon upright-s 3. The uprights have longitudinal grooves at in their inner faces which also extend within the inner faces of the arms 2 and constitute guide ways for a panel 5. This panel is designed to be placed with its ends in the described a supbar, a yoke emupper surface of the bar', trucks secured 5 trucks for attachment to flexible supporting 10 upon the top surface of the bar, andeach extending beyond opposite faces of the bar, each truck consisting of parallel brackets and anti-friction rollers journaled between 1 the ends of the brackets,said brackets supl porting the rollers beyond the side faces of the bar, and means depending from the end portions of the bar and directly below the 1 devices.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two wltnesses.

WVILLIAM H. VIRGIE. \Vitnesses S. H. VVI-IITE,

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